From a drawing in 'Picturesque New Guinea', J Lindt, 1887.
Source Firkin
Could remind you a bit of those squares in Super Mario Bros, yeh?
Source Jeff Wall
After 1 comes 2, same but different. You get the idea.
Source Hendrik Lammers
You don’t see many mid-tone patterns here, but this one is nice.
Source Joel Klein
Number 1 in a series of 5 beautiful patterns. Can be found in colors on the submitter’s website.
Source Janos Koos
To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i
Source Firkin
Someone was asking about how to achieve a fur pattern at #inkscape irc so tried to make a filter on it. Flood filled fractal noises rigged together. May someone find a good use for these.
Source Lazur URH
A repeating background with a look of paper. I have added some changes to PatCreator. Now you can share your designs by submitting them to a new gallery section. Start by clicking Edit with PatCreator above.
Source V. Hartikainen
An abstract Background pattern of purple twisty patterns.
Source TikiGiki
From drawing in 'Musings in Maoriland', Thomas Bracken, 1890.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
As the original image 's page size is too large for its image size, I remixed it.
Source Yamachem
A dark metallic background with a pattern of stamped dots. Here's a dark "metallic" background pattern for you.
Source V. Hartikainen
This one is so simple, yet so good. And you know it. Has to be in the collection.
Source Gluszczenko
If you like it a bit trippy, this wave pattern might be for you.
Source Ian Soper
It looks like a polished stone surface to me. Download it for free, as always.
Source V. Hartikainen
Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
Source Firkin
Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form', Walter Crane, 1914.
Source Firkin
Retro Circles Background 7 No Black
Source GDJ
From a drawing in 'Uit de geschiedenis der Heilige Stede te Amsterdam', Yohannes Sterck, 1898.
Source Firkin
A free background tile with a pattern of pink bump dots. This background tile is sweet! Moreover, it's designed for use as website backgrounds.
Source V. Hartikainen
So tiny, just 7 by 7 pixels – but still so sexy. Ah yes.
Source Dmitriy Prodchenko